The world premiere of the first part of the
five-and-half-hour-long uncut version occurred on 16
February 2014 at the 64th Berlin International Film
Festival.

Nymphomaniac is the third and final entry in von Trier''s
unofficially titled "Depression Trilogy", having been
preceded by Antichrist and Melancholia.
Plot
On a cold winter''s evening, the old, charming bachelor
Seligman finds the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe
(Charlotte Gainsbourg) beaten up in an alleyway. He
brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds
while asking her about her life. He listens intently as
Joe, over the next eight chapters, recounts the lustful
story of her highly erotic life from infancy to the age
of 50. Seligman is widely read and connects Joe''s
stories with what he has read about.

Volume I
1. "The Compleat Angler"
From a young age, Joe becomes interested in her
genitalia and explores herself sexually. As a young
woman (Stacy Martin), she loses her virginity to Jerôme
(Shia LaBeouf), a random guy who she had no relationship
with, this first encounter leaves her disappointed.
Years later, accompanied by her best friend B (Sophie
Kennedy Clark), Joe engages with multiple people
sexually on a train carriage. After having sex in the
toilet with many of the men she comes across, she
sexually assaults one of them who had denied her
advances. The whole purpose of such a sex train-trip,
was no other than winning a bet which had a candy bag as
a prize.
2. "Jerôme"
Joe takes on more lovers as she, B and several friends
create a club, "The Little Flock," dedicated to freeing
themselves from the prospect of love, though Joe leaves
after the other members start to develop more serious
relationships with their lovers. As she gets older and
finds work after dropping out of medical school, her
first employer is none other than Jerôme. Whilst sexual
intentions are clearly on his mind, she finds herself
avoiding his advances, frustrating him. When Joe does
find sexual interests in him however, she is too late as
he has left along with his uncle''s secretary Liz. She is
immediately fired by his uncle (Jesper Christensen) for
her lack of experience.
3. "Mrs. H"
Time moves on and she finds herself engaging in multiple
partners once again, though still longing to be together
with Jerôme. On one occasion with one of her clients, H
(Hugo Speer), she causes conflict that makes him leave
his wife for her. The distressed Mrs. H (Uma Thurman)
enters her house and attempts to demonize them in front
of her children, though Joe states in the present that
this barely affected her. The situation then becomes
more grotesque and complicated as Joe''s next lover, A,
arrives at the house and finds himself in the middle of
Mrs. H''s mental breakdown. The family finally leaves,
but not before Mrs. H chastises Joe for her lifestyle,
slaps her now ex-husband and leaves the apartment
screaming.
4. "Delirium"
Later on, Joe''s father dies and she sinks into despair.
5. "The Little Organ School"
Just before the end, after going on one of her regular
walks, Jerôme finds her after separating from Liz, a
coincidence Seligman finds preposterous, and they
embrace. As the two engage in passionate sex, Joe
becomes distraught after finding that she can no longer
''feel anything''.

Volume II
6. "The Eastern and the Western Church (The Silent
Duck)"
Joe falls into a crisis when she realizes that she lost
all interest in sex; Jerôme and she try to work on her
problem, but nothing seems to work. When the two
conceive a baby together, Marcel, Jerôme struggles to
keep up with her constant sex demand and so he allows
her to frequent other men in order to satisfy her mood.
This is shown to be detrimental later however as he
becomes jealous of her endeavors.
As the years pass her sexual endeavors become
increasingly violent, including visits to K (Jamie
Bell), a sadomasochist who ties her to a couch and beats
her. The visits to this man become more and more
important in her life, and at some point, they take
priority over her own child. When Jerôme comes home one
day to find the baby unattended, he starts watching Joe
closely and, on Christmas Day, he makes her pick between
her family or K. She picks the latter and, after
receiving a savage beating from K, takes a path of
loneliness away from her one and only possibility of a
normal life.
7. "The Mirror"
Some time passes and Joe is left with some irreversible
damage due to K''s . Her nymphomania is shown to be well
known around the office she now works at, prompting her
boss to demand she attend sex addiction anonymous groups
under the threat of losing her job. After attending a
meeting, she struggles to clean her apartment out of
anything that reminds her of sex until she ends up
masturbating with her herbarium. After three weeks of
sexual sobriety, Joe drops out of the class after seeing
a reflection of her younger self in a mirror and
viciously attacking her therapist and every member of
the group.
8 "The Gun"
Joe turns to organized crime and uses her experience in
sex and sadomasochism to beat debtors for money. Her
superior, L (Willem Dafoe), recommends that she gets an
apprentice to help her out. The girl in question, P,
eventually ends up moving in with Joe, and they soon
engage in a sexual relationship.

On one occasion during a round of debt collection, Joe
notices that they are at a house belonging to Jerôme,
and to make sure she is not seen she tells P to perform
her first solo job. Joe soon discovers that P is
cheating on her with Jerôme, and in the climax she pulls
a gun on him whilst the two are walking down an alley.
When she pulls the trigger, she forgets to cock the
pistol and Jerôme viciously beats Joe, then penetrates P
in front of her in the same way he took Joe''s virginity.
P then urinates on her and they leave her as she was at
the beginning of the story.

In the present Seligman describes to Joe that the
circumstances of her life might have been due to
differences in gender representation; all of the stigma,
guilt and shame she felt for her actions made her fight
back aggressively ''like a man''. He also states that she
subconsciously did not want to kill Jerome and so forgot
to remember how to cock a gun. Joe, who has until this
moment been playing devil''s advocate to Seligman''s
assumptions, announces she is too tired to go on and
asks to go to sleep.

As she begins to drift off, Seligman returns, and stands
next to Joe''s bed with his pants off, clearly wanting
sexual intercourse, despite being asexual. Joe refuses
and, as the screen turns black, shoots Seligman with the
gun, hurriedly grabs her things and leaves.